Hey everyone! 

We have a lot of new changes and updates to share with you; Here are the biggest changes we have made, but you can check out all of the changes we have made from October-June on our blog!

Notable Entries:

• UI overhaul - New colour theme, new windows, new font style and more!
• Strafing controls - Q & E now shuffle your avatar left and right
• New controls for flying - Start flying with E, go up with R and down with C (PageUp/PageDown continue to work as before)
• New contextual help for camera controls
• Facial animation support - gestures and scripts can now animate the facial blends!
• Do stuff while loading! Our UI is now functional while scenes are loading, meaning the shop, inventory, chat and more are accessible to you.
• Emoji support in chat (experimental!)
• Completely morph the built-in avatars with the new 'User Created Morphs' feature. (experimental, but cool!)
• Overhauled Outfit window - with new Body Shape Presets! You can also tint/colour existing clothing items if enabled by the creator (experimental!)
• Improvements to the shop - a new home screen, live preview of furniture and vehicles
• Edit and placing furniture is now possible in every region!
• Use the 'Add Component' button to add components to editable regions and furniture.
• New starter home region!
• A brand new welcome center experience!
• Improved framerates - we've improved a number of stalls, especially when in crowded scenes.
• VR Controls improvements - movement controls are now split across both hands for better control
• Scripting is much faster - we've tightened up our script engine, plugged memory leaks and optimised everything. BKR and similarly complex scripted activities are now considerably more performant!
• Lots, and lots of bugfixes - over 100 issues reported on the issue tracker have been resolved in this release. (Please keep reporting them to https://issues.sine.space!)